There could also be no larger believer that Rex Ryan will get the Jets head teaching job than Rex Ryan himself.
Ryan, who coached the Jets from 2009-14, is in search of one other crack on the job and can interview with Jets possession this week in Florida.
However not like different candidates, Ryan has been actively campaigning for the place by numerous appearances on ESPN properties – the community that presently employs him as an analyst – and was at it once more on Monday morning proudly proclaiming he was the “greatest man” for the gig.
Ryan, 62, appeared on ESPN New York’s “DiPietro & Rothenberg Present” the place he boasted about himself and took a shot at Aaron Rodgers’ “nation membership” mentality.
“The explanation I feel I’m going to get it’s as a result of I’m the most effective man for it. It ain’t shut,” Ryan mentioned through the radio look. “The factor you need to do is, you need to join together with your soccer crew, you need to join together with your fan base. The way in which they play, that’s an important factor. It’s not simply the Xs and Os and all that. This Ben Johnson, I like him, I completely love him, however I’m a greater candidate for this job than he can be.”
Johnson, the present Lions offensive coordinator and one of many hottest teaching prospects available on the market, will not be anticipated to interview for the Jets job.
However the Jets have already interviewed former Titans coach Mike Vrabel and former Panthers coach Ron Rivera, and have submitted interview requests for various names linked to different groups.
Ryan had been the pinnacle coach the final time the Jets made a postseason look and beneath his reign, the Jets made back-to-back AFC Championship Recreation appearances in 2009 and 2010.
He was fired after the 2014 season when the crew went 4-12.
The Jets are coming off one other disastrous season regardless of large expectations for the crew with a wholesome Rodgers beneath middle after lacking the entire 2023 season following an harm within the first offensive sequence of his Jets tenure.
Rodgers struggled for components of the 2024 season and was criticized for lacking obligatory minicamp within the spring, which ended up costing him roughly $100,000 in a positive.
“Clearly, when you have got a man that doesn’t present up for obligatory minicamp — and, by the best way, he’s your quarterback, coming off an harm — I feel that’s a completely ridiculous message you ship to the crew,” Ryan mentioned of Rodgers through the interview. “If he comes again, issues can be completely different. If he’s again, it ain’t gonna be the nation membership, present up every time the hell you wish to present up. That ain’t gonna occur. I’ll simply go away it at that.”
Rodgers’ future with the Jets is unclear and proprietor Woody Johnson instructed The Submit’s Brian Costello in an unique interview that any Rodgers choice can be made by the brand new head coach and normal supervisor.
